Industry, product and final demand classifications

Table 1 is constructed along two general dimensions: a “product” dimension, expressed in the rows of the SUT, and an “industry and final uses” dimension expressed in the columns. The benchmark Canadian supply and use tables (CSUTs) use the Supply and Use Product Classification (SUPC) for products, the Input-Output Industry Classification (IOIC) for domestic producers and intermediate consumption, and the Supply and Use Final Demand Classification (SUFDC) for disaggregating capital formation and final consumption. Each of these classifications are anchored to an International or North American standard classification system:

• SUPC - the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS)

• SUPC - the Harmonized System (HS) for trade

• IOIC - the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

• SUFDC - COICOP for Final Consumption Expenditures by households

The SLSA is composed of 17 industries and 9 final demand categories. There are 57 products (including value-added components). Table 2 shows the relationship between the SLSA industries and their counterpart in the benchmark CSUT. The SLSA industries disaggregate three CSUT industries along NAICS lines, creating 10 new industries.

The expansion of CSUT-IOIC BS113000 allows the activities of contract loggers to be analyzed separately from those of non-contract loggers. Given the system of forest management in Canada, this separation of activities is of analytical value. Tenure holders are given the right to harvest a certain amount of trees from a given area for a predetermined period of time. In other words, they are given ownership rights over the materials. However, many of these companies employ “contract loggers” to gather and transport the logs from the forest area to the mill that requires the material (e.g., a sawmill or a pulp mill). These harvesting companies do not themselves “own” the logs they harvest. Their revenues are earned by selling a “service.” In contrast, companies in the non-contract logging industry are assumed to own the logs they harvest, and thus earn revenue by selling a log.

The expansion of CSUT-IOIC BS321100 allows for the isolation of the activities of sawmills, without mixing the input or output patterns or value added ratios of the other industries contained in the CSUT industry. Although these other NAICS are of relatively lesser size for most provinces, their outputs and inputs can be sufficiently different in nature to make it useful to distinguish their figures.

Finally, the expansion of CSUT-IOIC BS321200 allows for the distinction between hardwood and softwood panel producers and those producing other types of engineered wood products.

Table 3 provides a link between the CSUT products that are disaggregated in the Satellite Account. For the most part, it distinguishes between the hardwood and softwood varieties of the corresponding benchmark CSUT products. This facilitates the analysis of these two very distinct types of forest products.

There are 28 other products within the SLSA but these products are equivalent to the products in the benchmark CSUT. They include contract logging services, hardwood and softwood lumber, as well as paper and paperboard products, among others.

The nine final demand categories delineate household final consumption (PEC00), non-profit institution and government final consumption (CE000), gross fixed capital formation (GFCF0), changes in inventories (INV00) and trade: international exports (INTEX), international re-exports (INTRX), international imports (INTIM), interprovincial exports (IPTEX) and interprovincial imports (IPTIM).